Marianna Fotaki

phone: +44 (0)24 7657 4668

email: marianna.fotaki@wbs.ac.uk

room: 3.140

Profile (biography)

Marianna Fotaki, Professor of Business Ethics at Warwick Business School and a visiting professor at The University of Manchester. Before joining academia Marianna has worked as EU resident adviser to the governments in transition and as a medical doctor for Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins Du Monde for ten years in total. She is a graduate of medicine, public health, and has obtained a PhD in public policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Research interests

Public and health policy management, with a focus on: (i) market reforms in health care in EU countries and economies in transition and (ii) the impact of patient choice and competition on promoting new forms of public private partnerships and developing a new category of users/consumers. My work in this area connects conventional approaches to understanding policy making with new theoretical perspectives drawn from critical social theory such as psychosocial studies.

People in organizations, with a particular focus on: (i) user-provider interface and leadership in public services and (ii) measures to counteract exclusion and promote diversity in organisations. My research in this area applies feminist theory and intersectionality perspectives to developing deeper understandings of gendered forms of organization and counteracting exclusion in organizations and society.

The impact of business in society, including (i) ethics of diversity (ii) ethics of care and consumerism and (iii) social enterprise and public-private partnerships. I am also particularly interested in the role of business education in promoting fairness in society.

Qualitative research methods, and in particular, the application of psychodynamic methodologies, narrative analysis and other related methods of investigation to the study of organizations.

Publications

Books:

Fotaki, M. (forthcoming 2014) Choice in Health, Education and Social Care: Users as Consumers in Public Services. Edward Elgar

Fotaki, M. and Harding, N. (forthcoming 2014) Gender and the Organization. Women at Work in 21st Century. Routledge

Fotaki, M. (2012) ‘Woman’s absence from the body of knowledge: The experience of female lecturers in business and management schools in England’ in Fatima Festic (Ed) Gender and Trauma, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp.191-214.

Fotaki, M. (2009) ‘The unwanted body of man or why it so difficult for women to make it in academe? A feminist psychoanalytic approach’ in M. Özbilgin (Ed) Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Work: A research companion. Pub. Edward Elgar Press. pp. 157-171.

Fotaki, M. (2011) Invited contribution ‘Agency versus structure or nature versus nurture: When the new twist on an old debate is not that new after all’ Social Science & Medicine, 73(5):639-642.

Jingjit, R. and Fotaki, M. (2011) ‘Confucian ethics and the limited impact of the New Public Management reform in Thailand’, Journal of Business Ethics, 97(1): 61-73.

Fotaki, M. (2011) ‘Towards developing new partnerships in public services: Users as consumers, citizens and/or co-producers driving improvements in health and social care in the UK and Sweden’ Public Administration, 89(3):933–95.

Fotaki, M. (2010) ‘The sublime desire for knowledge (in academe). Sexuality at work in business and management schools in England’, British Journal of Management, 22(1): 42-53.

Fotaki. M. (2009) ‘Informal payments: a side effect of transition or a mechanism for sustaining the illusion of ‘free’ healthcare? The experience of four regions in the Russian Federation’, Journal of Social Policy, 38(4), 649-670.

Fotaki, M. (2009) ‘The ghosts of the past, the dreamlands of the future… ‘Journal of Communist and Post-communist Studies, Invited contribution for a Special Issue entitled: The Ghosts of the Past: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of Communism in Europe and Russia, 42, 217-232.

Fotaki, M. (2009) ‘Are all consumers the same? Choice in health, education and social services in the UK and elsewhere’, Public Money & Management, 29(3), 87-94.

Fotaki, M. (2009) ‘Maintaining the illusion of a free health service in post-socialism: A Lacanian analysis of transition from planned to market economy’, Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22(2), 141-158.